New Year's Resolutions Are Bad for You

New Year's Resolutions Are Bad for You

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 5, Episode 3 , Segment 3

Politics in 2016, Importance of Character, Bad Resolutions

Episode: Politics in 2016, Importance of Character, Bad Resolutions

  • Jan 4, 2016 2:00 pm
  • 31:37 mins

Jessica Lamb-Shapiro is an author of many fiction and nonfiction pieces which have been shown in many publications including The Believer, McSweeney’s, Open City, and Index magazine. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and is a graduate of Brown (BA) and Columbia (MFA). You can read more of her work by finding her new book, Promise Land: My Journey Through America’s Self-Help Culture. Jessica Lamb Shapiro shares why New Year's Resolutions may be bad for goal setting.